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Erik Lomis takes senior international role at MGM
Erik Lomis has been appointed executive vice president ofinternational theatrical and home entertainment at MGM.Lomis, who has served in a consultant capacity to MGM, joins thestudio formally to oversee the marketing and distribution of theinternational theatrical and home entertainment releases, which arehandled by Fox.He will be the primary executive working ...
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Kadison moves to Fox Atomic from Gold Circle
Former Gold Circle senior vice president of production Zak Kadison has joined Fox Atomic as vice president of production.Kadison will report to Fox Atomic president of production Debbie Liebling. One of his first projects will be Larry Doyle's I Love You, Beth Cooper, produced by 1492 Pictures.At Gold Circle Kadison ...
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Kimmel closes Japan and Italy on Kaufman's Synecdoche
Kimmel International has closed key deals on its new Cannes films, kicking off with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which went to Asmik Ace in Japan and Bim in Italy.Meanwhile Kimmel sales chief Mark Lindsay reported that MovieEye in Japan and Senator in Germany bought Tarsem Singh's political ...
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Luke G-Jones goes green with Cool Hand
Luke G-Jones, the former head of co-production and finance at New Films International, has launched an innovative 'carbon credit' scheme for film production via his LA-based Cool Hand International.Cool Hand, says G-Jones, is a carbon-neutral company and any film in which he gets involved will be a carbon-neutral production. The ...
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Charity amfAR comes on board for Dubai Film Festival
The organisers of Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) have teamed up with amfAR, the American foundation for AIDS research.This year's festival, Dec 9-16, will host a version of the Cinema Against AIDS event, the star-studded fundraiser that's become an annual fixture at Cannes.DIFF chairman Abdulhamid Juma confirmed that Sharon Stone, ...
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Arthouse takes on urban graffiti documentary Next
Arthouse Films has taken all North American, Australian, New Zealand, and South African rights (without TV) to feature documentary Next: A Primer on Urban Painting.The film is director Pablo Aravena's first documentary feature and was co-produced by Aravena, Lovestreams & agnes b. and executive produced by Claude Girard and Nadja ...
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Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones team for Carnaval 3D
Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones are teaming up on the US-Brazil co-production Carnaval 3D: The Magic And The Music.Jones will appear on camera profiling the high and low life surrounding the week-long Rio De Janeiro Carnaval. A portion of the film's profits will go improving the lives of impoverished Brazilian ...
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Perlmutter appointed to top post at Canada's NFB
Tom Perlmutter has been appointed to the top position at Canada's National Film Board (NFB). Perlmutter, who joined the NFB in 2001 as the director general of the English programme, was elevated to the position of government film commissioner and chairman of the NFB. The appointment was made by Canadian ...
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Cronenberg swarms to executive produce Woodley's Drone
David Cronenberg will executive-produce horror Drone, the next film by Aaron Woodley (being pre-sold in Cannes by Global Cinema Group.) The film is being produced by Joel B. Michaels and Garth H. Drabinsky.Drone, written by Jon Felson and Rusty Gorman, is based on a short story by TC Boyle. It ...
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Arthouse takes North American DVD rights to Cartier-Bresson box
Arthouse Films has acquired North American DVD rights to the Henri Cartier-Bresson double DVD box set, featuring five films by the master photographer and several documentaries on his life and work.The deal was struck with French sales company MK2's head of sales Mathilde Henrot by David Koh, head of acquisitions ...
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Cinemavault closes deals for Outsourced
Cinemavault has closed multiple territory sales here on John Jeffcoat's comedy Outsourced.Telemunchen has rights for German-speaking Europe to the story starring Josh Hamilton as a novelty product salesman who travels to India to train his replacement.Cinemavault also closed deals in: Australia (Starz), South Africa (Nu Metro), India (PVR Cinemas), Romania ...
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Storm rises for Santiago Parra's Guadalupe
Storm Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales on Guadalupe, Santiago Parra's tale of two scientists who investigate the apparition of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe in Mexico.Pedro Armendariz stars alongside Ivana Mino and Aleix Albaredo. The Versatile Group of Hollywood is also representing the feature, which shot in Spain and Mexico.
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Lupovitz lines up Podeswa, Evans, Palmer projects
LA-based producer Dan Lupovitz, executive producer on Death Defying Acts starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce and one of the producers on the currently-shooting Good with Viggo Mortenson, has lined out a slate of international projects here from film-makers including Jeremy Podeswa, Marc Evans and hot UK commercials directors ...
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First Star plans its Boer War Siege
New York-based First Star Pictures is in Cannes unveiling Siege Of O'Kiepe, a $37m epic set during the Boer War of 1901. The project will shoot in 2008 in Australia and South Africa with producers Olivier French and Bruce Bisbey. Bisbey also wrote the screenplay.The movie is set in the ...
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Sleepless writer turns to the devil with Pacifica
Christine Iso's LA-based Pacifica International is producing an action adventure that tells the story behind the devil's fall from grace, which is being scripted by Sleepless In Seattle writer David S. Ward. Ward is scripting from a story by first-time director Ray Griggs who has personally financed development of the ...
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DiGiaimo and Mudge pact for three
Barbara Mudge's Worldwide Film Entertainment has signed a three-picture deal with producer Lou DiGiaimo (Dinner Rush, Donnie Brasco). The titles are Piney Lake, Nebraska Fish & Game and Good Day Dying. Nick Stagliano (The Florentine) has signed to direct Piney Lake, which will start shooting in August for delivery at ...
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Spidey stays strong in international markets
Displaying strong international legs, Spider-Man 3 dominated the international box office again this weekend, falling a modest 41% to $49.6m. Shrek The Third, meanwhile, added to its huge domestic haul with an extremely promising international debut in Russia. Sony Pictures Releasing International's Spider-Man 3 took its $49.6m from 15,850 screens ...
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Shrek The Third makes $122m domestic debut
Shrek The Third had a fairy tale beginning at the North American box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $122m and beating Shrek 2's record for the biggest ever opening by an animated film. The DreamWorks Animation CG outing becomes the third biggest domestic opener of all ...
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Buena Onda works with Sardi and Max on Buena Onda Americas
Miami-based producer Donald K. Ranvaud (Central Station, City Of God) is in Cannes with a slate of 10 films from the top young Latin-American talent. The new films are being packaged and produced through Ranvaud's new outfit Buena Onda Americas, which recently set up in association with Silvio Sardi Communications ...
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Arthouse Films takes sales rights to Alice Neel documentary
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights, including all North American rights, to the feature documentary Alice Neel.The documentary on the American painter was directed by Andrew Neel and produced by Ethan Palmer, Rebecca Spence, and SeeThink Productions.Arthouse is handling the US release as well as world sales here in Cannes.